CHAPTER TEN - Revelations.
The sun rose, spilling light into Jeff's bedroom, waking him up as the light made patterns and shapes on the insides of his eyelids. He groaned slightly as his hangover kicked in. Being blind had its advantages, Jeff thought as he sat up, knowing that if it wasn't for his lack of sight the room would be spinning. He pushed the button on his clock.
"The time is seven forty two." The electronic voice informed him.
He showered and dressed quickly before grabbing an old hoe box from his room and starting on the walk to his father's house.
Even in his drunken state of the night before Jeff had realised how he was going to find her. He knew he just had o find the right person to ask, and then his father had walked in surprising them, but bringing with him the answer to the question that had been bothering Jeff.
He knocked on the door of his father's house and it was Gil who opened it for him. "I need a favour." Jeff asked kindly.
"Okay but can you give me a minute I need to finish getting Mollie dressed." Gil went upstairs and Jeff headed into the kitchen, taking a seat at the big family table. After about 10 minutes he heard footsteps coming downstairs and into the kitchen.
"I need you to look through these bank statements and see if it says where I'm paying the child maintenance to." Jeff blurted it out quickly before Gil could delay him again and he would lose confidence.
"Child maintenance?" The voice was shocked, but that wasn't what disturbed Jeff. The voice was female. It was Chloe. "But I thought, I didn't think," She tried to form the right sentence. "The kid is yours?"
"I thought you two had already figured out whose Mollie is." Gil laughed, but stopped suddenly as he saw the serious looks on their faces. "Ah, so this would be about the other kid?" He half question half stated.
"It's yours?" Chloe's voice was filled with Venom. She stepped up towards Jeff and caught him with a stinging slap across the cheek. He flinched as it caught him, but made no other movements. She lifted her arm to hit him again but Gil caught her.
"He doesn't know for sure that it's his."
"You don't even know? Who else's could it be?"
"No one else's its mine." Jeff shouted.
"It might be Matt's." Gil spoke calmly in contrast to Jeff.
"You were both sleeping with her. Jesus Jeff you were sleeping with her? You were only 15!"
"You said it yourself yesterday. I loved her." Jeff's voice was filled with spite and self pity.
"So what you've been giving her money all these years? Giving money for the child of Satan which could be spent on our child?"
"He's not the child of Satan!"
"He? So it has a sex now does it? What about a name? Did you give it one of those too?"
"Max." Chloe threw a glass at Jeff as he spoke. It missed smashing against the wall behind him.
"How can you not know whose it is? Haven't you seen it?" Chloe's voice had dropped a few octaves to it's normal level as she took deep breaths to calm herself.
"I've seen it."
"Then who does it look like? What colour hair? What colour eyes?"
"Black hair." Chloe's eyes lit up at a likeness to Matt. "Green eyes." Chloe's eyes dulled down again. She felt guilty for hoping the child was Matt's but she really didn't want it to be Jeff's. The thought of their being another child out there belonging to him was more than she could bare. Another child with his blood running through his veins, was unfair, Mollie was that child. There shouldn't be another. Chloe knew her thoughts were stupid and irrational but she couldn't help them. "It is mine Chloe, I'm sure of it."
"And Matt? Is he sure it's his? Is he giving her money too?"
"He's sure it's mine too." Jeff's voice was quiet with an eerie amount of control and calmness in his voice.
"Another kid you brought into this world and abandoned?" Chloe almost screamed the insult at Jeff, throwing another glass at him. This time it caught the top of his head, but Chloe didn't seem to care. She stormed out of the room and out of the house. After less than a minute they heard a car start up and screech off down the road.
The sun rose, spilling light into Jeff's bedroom, waking him up as the light made patterns and shapes on the insides of his eyelids. He groaned slightly as his hangover kicked in. Being blind had its advantages, Jeff thought as he sat up, knowing that if it wasn't for his lack of sight the room would be spinning. He pushed the button on his clock.
"The time is seven forty two." The electronic voice informed him.
He showered and dressed quickly before grabbing an old hoe box from his room and starting on the walk to his father's house.
Even in his drunken state of the night before Jeff had realised how he was going to find her. He knew he just had o find the right person to ask, and then his father had walked in surprising them, but bringing with him the answer to the question that had been bothering Jeff.
He knocked on the door of his father's house and it was Gil who opened it for him. "I need a favour." Jeff asked kindly.
"Okay but can you give me a minute I need to finish getting Mollie dressed." Gil went upstairs and Jeff headed into the kitchen, taking a seat at the big family table. After about 10 minutes he heard footsteps coming downstairs and into the kitchen.
"I need you to look through these bank statements and see if it says where I'm paying the child maintenance to." Jeff blurted it out quickly before Gil could delay him again and he would lose confidence.
"Child maintenance?" The voice was shocked, but that wasn't what disturbed Jeff. The voice was female. It was Chloe. "But I thought, I didn't think," She tried to form the right sentence. "The kid is yours?"
"I thought you two had already figured out whose Mollie is." Gil laughed, but stopped suddenly as he saw the serious looks on their faces. "Ah, so this would be about the other kid?" He half question half stated.
"It's yours?" Chloe's voice was filled with Venom. She stepped up towards Jeff and caught him with a stinging slap across the cheek. He flinched as it caught him, but made no other movements. She lifted her arm to hit him again but Gil caught her.
"He doesn't know for sure that it's his."
"You don't even know? Who else's could it be?"
"No one else's its mine." Jeff shouted.
"It might be Matt's." Gil spoke calmly in contrast to Jeff.
"You were both sleeping with her. Jesus Jeff you were sleeping with her? You were only 15!"
"You said it yourself yesterday. I loved her." Jeff's voice was filled with spite and self pity.
"So what you've been giving her money all these years? Giving money for the child of Satan which could be spent on our child?"
"He's not the child of Satan!"
"He? So it has a sex now does it? What about a name? Did you give it one of those too?"
"Max." Chloe threw a glass at Jeff as he spoke. It missed smashing against the wall behind him.
"How can you not know whose it is? Haven't you seen it?" Chloe's voice had dropped a few octaves to it's normal level as she took deep breaths to calm herself.
"I've seen it."
"Then who does it look like? What colour hair? What colour eyes?"
"Black hair." Chloe's eyes lit up at a likeness to Matt. "Green eyes." Chloe's eyes dulled down again. She felt guilty for hoping the child was Matt's but she really didn't want it to be Jeff's. The thought of their being another child out there belonging to him was more than she could bare. Another child with his blood running through his veins, was unfair, Mollie was that child. There shouldn't be another. Chloe knew her thoughts were stupid and irrational but she couldn't help them. "It is mine Chloe, I'm sure of it."
"And Matt? Is he sure it's his? Is he giving her money too?"
"He's sure it's mine too." Jeff's voice was quiet with an eerie amount of control and calmness in his voice.
"Another kid you brought into this world and abandoned?" Chloe almost screamed the insult at Jeff, throwing another glass at him. This time it caught the top of his head, but Chloe didn't seem to care. She stormed out of the room and out of the house. After less than a minute they heard a car start up and screech off down the road.